Subject.

COMMITTEE ON CLAIMS-Continued.

On the bill (S. 864) for the relief of William G. Ford, administrator of
John G. Robinson, deceased..

On the bill (S. 1270) for the relief of Mrs. Mary H. Chawning.

On the bill (S. 171) for the relief of J. S. Golladay and J. W. Bowling..

492

344

3

493

495

513

516

On the petition of Mrs. Susan A. Shelby, praying additional compensation
for cotton seized at Port Gibson, Miss., in 1864.-

On the bill (S. 991) for the relief of J. Henry Rives

On the bill (S. 608) for the relief of J. S. Underhill.

On the bill (S. 588) for the relief of the estate of Lucien Goyaux

On the bills (S. 1391 and 2166) referring to the Court of Claims the
claim for property seized by order of General A. S. Johnston, on the
Utah expedition

On the bill (S. 1411) for the relief of Santiago de Leon.

On the bill (S. 1774) for the relief of William Tabb

On the bill (H. R. 2167) for the relief of W. J. Hancock, administrator
of J. J. Pulliam, deceased

On the bill (S. 2168) for the relief of the executor of Ayers P. Merrill,
deceased

521

On the petition of George Brown for relief..

522

On the bill (S. 391) for the relief of Wetmore & Brother, of St. Louis, Mo.
On the bill (S. 389) for the relief of A. L. H. Crenshaw.
On the bill (S. 1073) for the relief of Joseph H. Maddox.

545

546

547

On the bills (S. 511, 655, and 2191) for the relief of the States of Oregon,
Nevada, and California...

On the bill (S. 1580) for the relief of John H. Kinkead, of Nevada, and

others.

561

On the bill (S. 1648) for the relief of Mrs. Sallie H. Palmer_

564

On the bill (S. 714) for the relief of the Mobile Marine Dock Company..
On the bill (S. 803) for the relief of Overton Love and Wyatt Gilchrist..
On the bill (S. 804) for the relief of William Beddo and others..
On the bill (S. 870) for the relief of R. G. Combs and others.
On the bill (S. 1302) for the relief of the First National Bank of Portland,
Oreg-

565

569

570

572

On the bill (S. 567) for the relief of Alexander Swift & Co., partners, and
Alexander Swift and Co. and the Niles Works

On the bill (S. 646) for the relief of R. G. P. White, Peter Hanger, and

L. T. Green..

581

On the bill (S. 591) for the relief of the estate of Chester Ashley.
On the bill (H. R. 1800) for the relief of J. L. Burchard

582

583

On the bill (S. 2025) for the relief of John Ricketts..

584

On the bill (S. 2172) for the relief of Mrs. Clara Morris

On the bill (S. 1568) for the relief of the Florence Masonic Lodge, No.
14, at Florence, Ala..

585

586

On the bill (S. 1071) for the relief of James R. Howard, formerly assist-
ant special agent of the Treasury Department..

587

On the bill (S. 2005) to authorize the Court of Claims to investigate the
claim of George F. Brott for logs used in the construction of Fort Aber-
crombie, Dakota, and to give judgment for the same

588

On the bill (S. 2209) for the relief of Joseph H. Maddox and others.
On the bill (S. 2000) to reimburse the several States for interest paid on

589

war loans and for other purposes -

590

On the bill (S. 724) for the relief of Nathaniel McKay, George M. Clapp,
and the executors of Donald McKay..

591

On the bill (S. 1948) to require the payment in cash to the State of Geor-
gia of $35,555.42 appropriated for said State by an act to refund to the
State of Georgia certain money expended by said State for the common
defense in 1777, approved March 3, 1883...

On the bill (S. 514) for the relief of S. B. Cranston, of Oregon.
On the bill (S. 2247) for the relief of James E. Walter..

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COMMITTEE ON CLAIMS-Continued.

On the bill (S. 631) for the relief of Duncan S. Cage and the minor heirs
of Albert G. Cage, deceased .....

On the bill (H. R. 5377) for the allowance of certain claims reported by
the accounting officers of the United States Treasury Department.
On the bill (S. 744) for the relief of George W. Saulpaw.

622

656
657

On the bill (S. 1946) for the relief of Richard C. Ridgway and others..
On the bill (S. 1135) for the relief of Henry H. Sibley.

660

On the bill (S. 267) for the relief of Hadley Hobson

676
677

On the bill (S. 169) for the relief of Amelia B. Caldwell, administratrix
of John H. Caldwell...

678

On the bill (S. 887) for the relief of Herman Ruge

679

On the bill (S. 961) to provide for paying certain advances made to the
United States by the States of Maryland and Virginia..

680

On the bill (S. 1972) for the relief of Edway A. Grant..

681

On the bill (S. 1025) for the relief of William Ervin..

682

On the bill (S. 565) for the relief of Rev. Worcester Willey.

683

On the bill (S. 1711) for the relief of Edwin E. Saunders and J. A. Decim,
of Franklin, La..

686

On the bill (H. R. 1198) for the relief of John Taylor & Son

707

77777

77

7777

77

On the bill (S. 1884) for the relief of Daniel A. Dwight and the legal rep-
resentatives of Henry W. Taylor

On the joint resolution (S. Res. 3) for the relief of the widow and children
of John W. Judson...

On the bill (S. 387) for the relief of David Waldo & Co....

On the bill (S. 506) for the relief of Claude H. Masten, surviving partner
of the firm of Le Vert & Masten, of Mobile, Ala., and the children of
Octavia Le Vert, widow of his deceased partner

843

On the bill (S. 768) for the relief of the National Bank of Western
Arkansas..

844

On the bill (S. 1607) for the relief of the administrators of the estate of
Isaac P. Tice, deceased

845

846

859

On the bill (S. 630) for the relief of Cora A. Slocumb, Ida A. Richardson,
and Caroline Augusta Urquhart

On the bill (S. 254) for the relief of Arthur L. Fish...

COMMITTEE ON COMMERCE.

On the bill (S. 1422) making the city of Tacoma, in Washington Territory,
in the customs district of Puget Sound, a port of delivery, and the bill
(S.1423) making the city of Seattle, in Washington Territory, in the
Puget Sound customs district, a port of delivery...

On the bill (S. 1202) to provide for and aid in the construction and to reg-
ulate the operation of a ship-canal between Lakes Union and Washing-
ton and Puget Sound, in Washington Territory, and for other purposes
On the bill (H. R. 6657) authorizing the Saint Cloud Water-Power and
Mill Company to construct a dam across the Mississippi River at Saint
Cloud, Minn....

COMMITTEE ON THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.

276

494

872

On the bill (S. 729) for the protection of children in the District of Co-
lumbia, and for other purposes..

94

On the bill (S. 1432) for the relief of the Metropolitan Police Force of the
District of Columbia...

128

On the bill (S. 1148) for the relief of William B. Moses.

129

1

On the bill (S. 1104) relating to acknowledgment of conveyances of land in
the District of Columbia-

On the bill (S. 1063) to amend the Revised Statutes of the United States
relating to the District of Columbia..

On the bill (S. 1477) to authorize the construction of a bridge across the
Potomac River at the Three Sisters, near Georgetown, D. C..

Subject.

COMMITTEE ON THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA-Continued.

On the petition of Belva A. Lockwood and others that a woman deputy
warden be appointed to the jail of the District of Columbia.......
On the bill (S. 665) for the relief of Patrick Cook ----

On the bill (S. 349) for payment to Daniel Donovan for additional labor
and services rendered the District of Columbia

On the bill (S. 1319) for payment to Thomas McMahon for labor and serv-
ices, &c.

On the bill (S. 1625) for the relief of William Bowen..

On the bill (S. 1288) for the relief of Nathaniel C. Bateman.
On the bill (H. R. 2344) for the relief of Melissa G. Polar..
On the bill (H. R. 2346) for the relief of Sarah H. Redmond.
On the bill (H. R. 4689) for the relief of Eliza W. Patterson
On the bill (H. R. 2858) for the relief of John Connolly.......

On the bill (S. 1501) for the relief of Robert Strachan, John H. Johnson,
Samuel M. Bryan, George Combs, Annie Botts, and George A. Hawkins.
On the bill (H. R. 2344) for the relief of Melissa G. Polar....

COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION AND LABOR.

On the bill (S. 398) to aid in the establishment and temporary support of
common schools..

Supplemental report. (Part 2).

On the bill (S. 140) to establish a Bureau of Statistics of Labor.
On the bill (S. 654) to provide for a commission on the subject of the
alcoholic liquor traffic..

On the bill (S. 1464) creating a commission whose duty it shall be to in-
quire into and report upon the material, industrial, and intellectual
progress made by the colored people of this country since 1865, and mak-
ing appropriation for the same..

On the bill (S. 2170) relating to the eight-hour law -

On the bill (H. R. 2550) to prohibit the importation and migration of
foreigners and aliens under contract or agreement to perform labor in
the United States, its Territories, and the District of Columbia.---.
On the bill (S. 1457) to legalize the incorporation of national trades-unions.

COMMITTEE ON FINANCE.

On the bill (S. 332) for the relief of Thomas B. Shannon, of San Francisco,

Cal..

On the existing tariff on imports into the United States, &c., and the free
list, together with comparative tables of present and past tariffs, and
other statistics relating thereto...

On the bill (S. 528) for the relief of Silas Q. Howe, surviving partner of
William T. Pate & Co....

On the bill (S. 351) for the relief of Alexander Smiley.

On the bill (S. 10) for the relief of Harry I. Todd, late keeper of the Ken-
tucky Penitentiary.

107

192

On the bill (S. 806) for the relief of John McNellis..

197

On the bill (S. 895) for the relief of J. D. Morrison, surviving partner of
the firm of C. M. & J. D. Morrison...

223

On the bill (S. 919) for the relief of John M. McClintock..

On the bill (S. 336) releasing the estate of the late Frank Soulé, late col-
lector of internal revenue for the first district of California, and his
sureties from liability to the Government of the United States...
On the bill (S. 1393) to reimburse Frailey & De Verne for money paid into
Treasury of the United States.

On the bill (S. 1242) to reimburse Elizabeth Comstock customs dues paid
by her on articles donated for the relief of colored refugees..
On the bill (S. 530) for the relief of Henry Ayres, of Evansville, Ind.
On the bill (S. 823) for the relief of Thomas Lynch...
On the bill (S. 1237) for the relief of Betts, Nichols & Co..

261

282

292

294

295

303

224

122

22

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COMMITTEE ON FINANCE-Continued.

No.

Vol.

On the bill (S. 329) for the relief of the sureties of the late J. O. Rawlins. 318
On the bill (S. 1153) authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to deliver

to the rightful owners the contents of certain boxes deposited in the
Treasury Department by the Secretary of War..........

319

On the bill (S. 1538) for the relief of the legal representatives of the estate
of James Beaty, deceased, late of Baltimore, Md
On the bill (S. 968) for the relief of Fielding Hurst..

On the bill (S. 1664) for the relief of the legal representatives of the estate
of David Wood, deceased-----

On the bill (S. 1665) for the relief of John W. Cator, surviving partner of
the firm of Aymar & Co., of New York City..

On the bill (S. 719) to provide for the refund of excess of duties assessed
and collected on imports of raw sugars

354

On the bill (S. 956) for the relief of Pattison & Caldwell...

356

On the bill (S. 535) for the relief of the sureties of George F. Elliott..
On the bill (S. 459) to refund excessive duties caused by extraordinary
overvaluation of the Austrian florin in the year 1878..

408

On the bill (S. 969) for the relief of William J. Smith, late surveyor of
customs for the port of Memphis, State of Tennessee
On the bill (S. 562) for the relief of Orville Horwitz, trustee for C. D.
De Ford & Co..

On the bill (S. 862) for the relief of Uriel Crocker---

On the bill (S. 344) to regulate the payment of bills of exchange drawn in
foreign countries on persons, firms, companies, or corporations in the
United States, where the amount to be paid is named in foreign coins..
On the bill (S. 1861) for the relief of the Atlantic Alcohol Company of
Atlantic, State of Iowa.__

On the bill (S. 2230) for relief of First National Bank of Marion, Iowa...-
On the bill (S. 2321) for the relief of Bessie S. Gilmore..

701

789

777

COMMITTEE ON FISHERIES.

On the bill (H. R. 3108) to protect the fish in the Potomac, in the District
of Columbia, and to provide a spawning-ground for shad and herring
in the said Potomac River...

700

On the bill (S. 155) for the protection of the fisheries on the Atlantic coast

706

COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN RELATIONS.

On the joint resolution (S. Res. 27) as to giving notice to terminate the
convention of June 3, 1875, with His Majesty the King of the Hawaiian
Islands...

Views of the minority. (Part 2).

On the bill and joint resolution (S. 223 and S. Res. 2) relating to the claim
of Helen M. Fiedler, widow and executrix of Ernest Fiedler, deceased,
praying on behalf of herself and children that Congress will intervene
so as to aid her in collecting a claim alleged to be due to her late hus-
band from the Government of Brazil..

On the joint resolution (S. Res. 63) to permit Augustus J. Cassard to ac-
cept a gold medal conferred upon him by the Government of France..
On the bill (S. 1596) for the relief of the heirs of Martin Kenofsky..
On the bill (S. 1742) to authorize Albert T. Stream, keeper of the life-
saving station at Shoalwater Bay, Washington Territory, to accept a
medal awarded to him by the British Government..

On the joint resolution (S. Res. 37) allowing the widow of General Jesse
H. Moore, late consul at Callao, Peru, one year's salary...
On the joint resolution (S. Res. 46) relative to an accepted draft in the
Department of State..

Views of the minority. (Part 2).

On the bill (S. 1876) providing for an inspection of meats for exportation,
prohibiting the importation of adulterated articles of food or drink,
and authorizing the President to make proclamation in certain cases,
and for other purposes.--

77

Subject.

COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN RELATIONS-Continued.

On the bill (S. 155) for the protection of fish and fisheries on the Atlantic
coast..

On the joint resolution (S. Res. 43) for the erection of a bronze equestrian
statue to Simon Bolivar, in the city of Washington..........

392

On the joint resolution (S. Res. 68) and Mis. Doc. 59, relating to the occu-
pation of the Congo country, in Africa....

On the bill (S. 1158) to provide for the execution of the provisions of arti-
ticle 2 of the supplemental commercial treaty of November 17, 1880,
between the United States and China for repression of the opium traffic.
On the joint resolution (S. Res. 14) for the relief of Mrs. Jane Venable..
On the bill (S. 1983) to compensate Enoch Jacobs for services rendered
the Department of State..

On the bill (S. 1860) for the relief of Richard Phoenix..

Propose, in lieu of bills S. 347, 594, and 1700, an amendment to the bill
(H. R. 6770) making appropriations for the consular and diplomatic
service for the year ending June 30, 1885, and ask its reference to
Committee on Appropriations...

393

394

411

419

431

On the petition of Miguel Capella, a citizen or subject of Spain, making
claim for compensation from the United States for losses sustained dur-
ing the war of the rebellion, in Alabama

On the petition of Philip Schatzle, of Germany.

On the second branch of the resolution of the Senate, adopted January
22.1884. The resolution is as follows: "Resolved: That the Committee
on Foreign Relations be instructed to inquire into and report to the
Senate such legislation as shall protect our interests against those gov-
ernments which have prohibited or restrained the importation of meats
from the United States; and the committee is further instructed to re-
port what discriminations are made against exports from the United
States by the tariff laws of the principal countries of Europe and
America, especially France, Germany, Mexico, and Brazil, by reason of
commercial or other special treaties or agreements with more favored
nations, and to report the causes which led to such discriminations, the
efforts, if any, that have been made to remove them, and what legisla-
tion, if any, is necessary to place the United States on an equal footing
with the most favored nations. This investigation is not, however, to
delay the action of the committee on the first branch of this resolution".
On the bill (H. R. 6770) proposing an amendment to the same...
On the Senate resolution (Mis. Doc. No. 70) in relation to negotiations
with Spain

COMMITTEE ON INDIAN AFFAIRS.

On the bill (S 271) for the relief of Mrs. Louisa Boddy, of Oregon
On the bill (S. 84) entitled "A bill to authorize the Secretary of the Inte-
rior to ascertain the amounts due to citizens of the United States for
supplies furnished the Sioux or Dakota Indians of Minnesota subse-
quent to August, 1860, and prior to the massacre of August, 1862, and
providing for the payment thereof"

On the bill (S. 460) to authorize the sale of timber on certain lands re-
served for the use of the Menomonee tribe of Indians in the State of
Wisconsin

On the petitions praying that the Oklahoma lands in the Indian Territory
be opened for settlement.

On the bill (S. 938) confirming to W. S. Byers & Co. the right to take and
use water from the Umatilla River, on the Umatilla Reservation in the
State of Oregon, for manufacturing and other purposes.

On the bill (S. 1108) to provide for the sale of the Iowa Indian Reserva-
tion in the States of Nebraska and Kansas, for the issuance of a patent
for a reservation for the Iowa tribe of Indians in the Indian Territory,
and for other purposes..

S. Rep.-III